In Why So Sad, Sammy? Colleen Taffe and Ashley Gibbs offer an easy to understand primer for children on the concepts of mental health. The story is a way to help parents, families, teachers, pastors, and loved ones begin conversations about feelings of sadness and worry that children struggle with. This series focuses on learning the importance of resiliency while equipping young ones with the tools to be overcomers.

A story about the death of Sammy and the aftermath as seem through the eyes of a young sibling. Includes "parent notes" to help a young child try to process death. Also includes a story about a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly.

Sam has seasonal affective disorder or SAD. He will tell you all about it from a child’s view. Sam feels the winters are long and dark. The weather saps your energy. What causes it? Lack of sunlight. What season is the worst for people with SAD? What happens when you are SAD? You become lonely. Who do you talk to when you are SAD? No one. Are there things to do when SAD takes over? You bet! Come and learn what you can do during the SAD season. After all, just because you suffer from SAD doesn’t mean you have to stay sad.

A boy describes some of the many feelings he has about his brother Sammy, who is autistic.

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One minute your child is fine. The next minute, a broken bone. Hours later, in a clunky cast. For weeks or months, sidelined from favorite activities. If your child is like Sammy, (s)he gets glum and grumpy as days slog by. Help is pages away in Sammy's Broken Leg (Oh, No!) and the Amazing Cast That Fixed It, a whimsical book to entertain a child in a cast for healing a broken bone, or in a spica cast for hip correction (hip dysplasia). Children in a cast will delight in a troupe of Kisses who cheer for Sammy and coach her to be patient. The Kisses are Sammy's secret: only she can hear them. How and when they whooshed into her life will amaze and amuse. It all goes to prove: One Kiss for a Boo-Boo. A Bazillion Kisses for a Cast! Lavished with colorful, quirky illustrations, Sammy's Broken Leg (Oh, No!) and the Amazing Cast That Fixed It is entertaining, educational and encouraging. The book: Gives children and families realistic expectations about weeks or months of healing time. Eases children's fears, calms parents' anxieties. Hands parents a tool to boost their child's (and their own) patience.